Newspaper folding, wrapping, addressing, and assorting machine.



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L. A. Asmaw.

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LEE A. AGNEW, OF NEV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

TO AGNEW AUTO-MAILING MACHINE COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSA- CIIUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

NEWSPAPER FOLDING, WRAPPING, ADDRESSING, AND ASSORTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent hlm/113,271, dated November 1 1, 1902.

Application filed March 22, 1899. Renewed May 22, 1902. Serial No. 108,540. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, LEE A. AGNEW, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Machine for Folding, Wrapping, Addressing, and Assorting Newspapers and the Like; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,

1o such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to automatic machines for folding, Wrapping, addressing, and assorting newspapers, magazines, and the like, and

I5 embodies improvements upon'and combinations of mechanisms illustrated and described in my Patents No. 591,810, dated October 19,v

1897, for a machine for folding and wrapping newspapers, and No. 586,327, dated July13, 2o 1897, for a machine for'wrapping, folding,

and addressing newspapers, and in my appli.

features of combination, construction, and

arrangement of the parts. i

The objects of my invention are, first, to 3o perform by machinery automatically all of the operations involved in folding, wrapping, addressing, and assorting, according tolocalities or otherwise, newspapers, magazines, and the like; second, to avoid the carrying 55 off of two or more papers simultaneously when it is intended that but one paper shall be taken off at a time; third, to improve the folding mechanism and render the same more rapid in its operation; fourth, to improve the 4o wrapping mechanism; fifth, to improve the addressing mechanism; sixth, to prevent the feeding forward of wrappers into the folding mechanism if for any reason the feeding of the newspapers or other objects to be folded and Wrapped be interrupted; seventh, to improve the asserting mechanism, and, eighth, to make the whole machine as simple and compact as possible. These objects are attained in the inventions herein described and 5o illustrated in the drawings which accompany and form a part of this specification, in which the same reference-numerals indicate the i y same orcorresponding parts, and in which- Figures 1 to 26, inclusive, show a machine .and details of parts thereof With the assorting mechanism omitted. Figs. 27 to 32 show the asserting mechanism. Fig. 1 is a side 'elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a top view thereof, most of the mechanism of the lower part of the machine beingomitted for the sake 6o of clearness. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail elevation looking from the left of Fig.

1 and on a somewhat-larger scale than Fig. 1

of the mechanism for feeding in the wrappers and for revolving intermittently the rotary carrier which receives the folded papers from the folding mechanism, the remaining mechanism ofthe machine being omitted. Fig. 5

is a detail transverse section of the wrapper- 7o feeding rollers and the parts in proximity thereto. Fig. 6 is a detail elevation of portions of these wrapper-feeding rollers with the gearing for driving the same, showing particularly a device which may be employed for imprinting a title or other matter upon the wrappers. Fig. 6 is a detail view of the hit-and-miss clutch through which the wrapper feeding and cutting rollers are driven. Fig. 7 is a detail section of that one of the 8o feeding-rollers which carries the printing plate. Fig. 8 isadetail transverse section of the rotary carrier which receives the folded papers and the partially-folded wrappers from the folding mechanism and of the principal portions of the secondary folding device, together with the device employed for pasting the wrappers. Fig. 9 is a detail elevation of the feeding apparatus employed for removing the papers successively from 9o the elevator. Fig. 10 is a detail sectional elevation of this feeding mechanism on the line 10 10 of Fig. 9 looking in the direction of the arrows, the elevator and the papers thereon being omitted. Fig. 11 is a central 95 cross-section of the machine on a plane parallel to the plane of Fig. 1, showing the paper and wrapper feeding mechanism employed for carrying the papers and wrappers from the primary folding-knife to the secroo ondary folding-knife. Fig. 12 is a detail elevation of the mechanism employed for carrying the papers downward from the primary folder to the secondary folder. Fig. 13 is a detail side elevation of the same. Fig. 14 is a detail elevation of the addresser. Fig. 15 is a detail elevation of the hit-and-miss clutch, through which the addresser is driven. Fig. 16 is a side elevation of the addresser. Fig. 17 is a sectional elevation of the addresser on the line 16 16 of Fig. 14. Fig. 18 is a side elevation, and Fig. 19 a transverse section, of one of the elevator-chain housings, showing the means employed for taking up slack in the chain. Fig. 2O is a detail longitudinal section, and Fig. 21 a transverse section on the line 21 2l of Fig. 20, looking in the direction of the arrows, of the hit-and-miss clutch employed for driving the receiving-elevator. Fig. 22 is a detail top view of the presser-roller of the pasting mechanism and of the knife employed for cleaning the same. Fig. 23 is a top View of the paste-pot and paste-roller. Fig. 24 is a vertical longitudinal section of the conveyer mechanism which carries the folded papers away from the folding and wrapping mechanism. Fig. 25 is a top view of said conveying mechanism with the addresser removed. Fig. 26 is a cross-section of the said conveyer mechanism on the line 26 26 of Figs. 24 and 25. Fig. 27 is a side view of the assorting mechanism, showing also the relation of said mechanism to the main portion of the machine. Fig. 2S is a front View of said assorting mechanism. Fig. 29 is a top view of said assorting mechanism. Fig. 30 is a detail top View of the control-chain of the assorting mechanism and associated parts. Fig. 3l is a further detail view, on a larger scale, of a portion of the asserting mechanism; and Fig. 32 is a detail view of the shutter which closes the receiving-pocket of the assorting mechanism.

The general method of operation of themachine illustrated in the accompanying drawings and to be described herein is as follows: The papers,magazines, or other articles to be folded, wrapped, addressed, and assorted according to localities, if assorting mechanism be attached to the machine, are placed in quantities upon the shelves of a receiving conveyer or elevator and are carried upward.

thereby. At the head of the elevator there is a feeding mechanism consisting of vibrating feed-fingers, which engage at each vibration the uppermost paper on the elevator and carry it to one side until it is caught by rapidlymoving tapes, which carry the paper into a foldingmechanism. NVhilethisisbeingdone, a wrapper feeding and cutting mechanism draws a wrapper from a roll, cuts it, and feeds it into the folding mechanism directly beneath the paper fed therein from the elevator. A folding-knife then descends upon the paper and folds it and the wrapper in the center, carrying both downward a short distance until the paper is engaged by fingers projecting from sprocket-chains, which fingers project into the fold of the paper and carry said paper with the wrapper downward into a positionoppositeasecondfolding-knife. Theflngers are then disengaged from the paper and the second folding-knife moves forward, folding the paper and wrapper a second time and forcing them into one of a series of pockets in a revolving but intermittently-moving carrier. This carrier then revolves, and by so doing causes a projecting flap of the wrapper to receive adhesive paste. The carrier carries the folded paper into a position to be acted upon by an ejector,which ejects it from its pocket in the carrier. Itis then received by a delivering-conveyer,which carries it under a brush, by which the pasted flap of the wrapper is pressed down upon the main portion of the wrapper and under an addresser, by which an address-label is affixed to the wrapper. If the machine be provid ed with assorting mechanism, this delivering-conveyer delivers the folded paper to the assorting mechanism, by which mechanism it is placed in a bag with other papers similarly addressed. If the machine be not provided with assorting mechanism, the delivering-conveyer removes the paper a convenient distance from the addresser and then deposits it.

Mechanism hereinafter described is employed for regulating the speed of the supplyelevator and for preventing the operation of the wrapper-feeding mechanism, the addressing mechanism, and the asserting mechanism if for any reason a paper is not fed forward at any time.

Referring now to the drawings, and at rst more particularly to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 9, and 10, 30 and 31 are tight and loose driving-pulleys upon a main driving-shaft 32, which also carries a fly-wheel 33. A stub-shaft 34 is driven from shaft 32 by gears 35, 36, and 37, of which gear 36 is mounted upon a carrier movable in a slot 3S, Fig. 3. It is thus possible to employ gears 36 and 37 of dierent sizes, so as' to vary the speed of driving of the shaft 34. Shaft 34 carries a belt-wheel 39, which beltwheel drives a corresponding belt-wheel on a horizontal shaft 40 by means of a belt 4l. The belt-wheel on shaft 40 may be connected to its shaft by means of a hit-and-miss clutch- 42. (Shownin detailinFigs. 20and21.) This clutch will be fully described hereinafter. For the present it may be assumed that shaft 40 is driven by the 'belt 41. The shaft 40 is the driving-shaft of the receiving conveyer or elevator. This receiving-elevator consists of two series of platforms 43, each carried by two sprocket-chains 44, Fig. 2, which run over sprocket-wheels mounted upon shafts 45 45. The lower shafts 45 are mounted in bearings in uprigllts 46. The upper shafts are mounted in movable extensions 46' of these uprights, (shown in Figs. 18 and 19,)

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